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2Apr

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Noteworthy, Senegal

Pape Diouf, journalist & football agent

Mababa "Pape" Diouf ‑ a Senegalese journalist and football agent, who was the president of French football club Olympique de Marseille between 2005 and 2009 – died of Covid-19 on 31 March 2020. He was the first Black President of a top flight football club in any of Europe's top six leagues Diouf was born in Abéché, Chad, to Senegalese parents. The family returned to their native country shortly after Diouf's birth. Diouf had Chadian, French and Senegalese citizenships. Diouf moved to Marseille at the age of eighteen. He later studied at Sciences Po. Diouf started out as a journalist, working for La Marseillaise newspaper. Diouf centred his work around sport, and particularly the local football club, Olympique de Marseille. Eventually he turned his hand to be...

2Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Anick Jesdanun, journalist

Anick "Nick" Jesdanun ‑ an American technology journalist who served as deputy technology editor for the Associated Press (AP) – succumbed to Covid-19 on April 2, 2020. Jesdanun covered technology, especially the internet, for AP for more than twenty years and sought to help readers navigate the relatively new technology and its impact on daily life, from the 1990s to the 2020s. Jesdanun was the first Associated Press reporter to be assigned as an "internet writer" in the news agency's history. Jesdanun's parents, Adisak and Orabhin Jesdanun, immigrated to the United States from Thailand. He was originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but was raised in New Jersey. He earned a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore Col...

31Mar

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Ecuador, Noteworthy, Profiles

Manuel Adolfo Varas, journalist

Manuel Adolfo Varas Varas ‑ an Ecuadorian broadcaster, sports journalist and lawyer – died on March 30, 2020 from Covid-19. Varas, who co-founded Radio Caravana 750 AM and reported from the station for 39 years, was considered a pioneer of sports journalism in Ecuador and one of the country's best known sports journalists. Varas was a lawyer by training, but spent more than 55 years as a sports journalist and commentator. His career began on the América radio station in 1964. He broadcast from the 1966 Copa Libertadores games. He then worked at a series of stations and radio shows focused on athletics, including Sucesos, Bolívar, Mambo (as a guest commentator), Noticia, and La Fabulosa. He also wrote for El Universo. In 1985, Varas joined with colleagues to found a...

30Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Beryl Bernay, journalist

Beryl Bernay (March 2, 1926 – March 29, 2020) was a journalist and children's television creator, as well as a painter, photographer, actor and fashion designer. Bernay was born Beryl Bernstein in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents were Russian immigrants. Her father was a garment worker, and her mother, Sade, sold stockings and taught kindergarten. Her father changed the family name to Berney when Beryl was a child, but Beryl changed the spelling to Bernay when she reached adulthood. Bernay took acting classes with Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof. She appeared on Broadway in Tonight in Samarkand in 1955 and later that year in ANTA's Paris production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth with Helen Hayes and Mary Martin. She returned to Bro...

30Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Maria Mercader, journalist

Maria Carla Mercader ‑ an American journalist and news producer who worked for CBS News for over three decades – succumbed to Covid-19 on March 29, 2020. For her work producing a CBS feature report about computer spam, Mercader won a business Emmy Award in 2004. In 2020, she died of COVID-19 during its pandemic in New York City. Mercader was born on November 28, 1965, in New York City to Manuel and Gladys Mercader. She studied at Dominican Academy, then at the College of New Rochelle, where she graduated in 1987. Mercader started working for CBS News in 1987 as a page in the company's page program, then began her news career at CBS Newspath, where she produced pieces for distribution at CBS' affiliates. She also worked on the netwo...

30Mar

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Henri Tincq, journalist

Henri Tincq ‑ a French journalist and Vatican expert – succumbed to Covid-19 on 29 March 2020. He was a religious specialist for the newspaper Le Monde from 1985 to 2008 after having worked for the newspaper La Croix. He has also worked for the magazine Slate. Tincq obtained a degree in philosophy from Sciences Po in Paris and a degree in journalism from the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille. His most notable work is Larousse des religions, and he chaired the Association des journalistes de l’information religieuse (AJIR) from 1994 to 1999. Tincq had an interest in the history of popes. Following the election of Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, he established a list of "progressive objectives" for the Catholi...

25Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Alan Finder, journalist

Alan Finder –an American journalist and a longtime employee of the New York Times ‑ died on March 24, 2020, due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Alan A. Finder was born in Brooklyn and raised in Nassau County, New York, graduating from Valley Stream South High School. He earned a B.A. in history at the University of Rochester in 1969 and an M.A. in American studies at Yale University in 1972. From 1974 to 1979, he worked at The Record in Hackensack, New Jersey, and then until 1983 at Newsday on Long Island. Finder worked for 27 years at the New York Times and retired in December 2011. Times executive editor Dean Baquet described Finder as "one of Metro's stars in the 1980s and 1990s, a big writer in a big, hugely competitive era for Ne...

24Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles

Zororo Makamba, journalist

Zororo Makamba ‑ a Zimbabwean journalist and the son of Irene and James Makamba – died on 23 March 2020 due to COVID‑19. Makamba posted commentary on Zimbabwean politics and society online under the heading "State of the Nation", and hosted current affairs programs on ZiFM Stereo and M-Net television affiliate Zambezi Magic. He had myasthenia gravis, a neuroskeletomuscular autoimmune disease, and underwent surgery to remove a thymoma gland tumour in November 2019. He was diagnosed on 21 March 2020 with COVID-19, twelve days after returning from New York City and five days after going to a doctor with a cough and fever. He died in Harare two days later, the first death in the country due to the disease.